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genarian veterinarians. " What ! " it will be said, " Are we to 

 discard all those principles of treatment of which time and ex- 

 perience has taught us the expedience and suitability, and nail 

 upon a foot already suffering an extreme degree of pain a mass 

 of iron, the mere nailing on of which must have the effect of 

 inflicting a still higher degree of torture ? Such a proceeding 

 would be preposterous in the last degree ; absolutely absurd, 

 and a piece of downright folly and cruelty. The man who pro- 

 poses to treat laminitis by any such means is a knave or a fool, 

 or perhaps both, whose descent in the scale of barbarity has 

 reached the very lowest depths of infamous indifference to the 

 sufferings of the 'noble horse.' " 



THE KIND OF RECEPTION. 



This is the kind of reception I expect for my proposal to ex- 

 pand the quarters of a foundered horse, to create pressure on 

 the sole of the foot, to elevate, rather than to depress the heels, 

 and generally to act diametrically opposite to all approved 

 principles of treatment handed down to us by our grandmothers. 

 The general mode of affixing the shoe is the same as in con- 

 traction. 



SPECIAL POINTS IN SHOEING FOR LAMINITIS 



require, however, to be borne in mind : To guard against any 

 further descent of the sole than what has taken place, rasp the 

 lower circumferent margin of the wall, and prepare the foot and 

 the shoe so that the weight of the animal shall be borne entirely 

 by the sole at its broadest portion. 



If the foot is large and flat, a light bar may be placed upon 

 the shoe across the broadest part. The shoe should also be 

 broad in the web, and the quarters only should be expanded. 

 If the foot is medium or small-sized, the bar may be dispensed 

 with, but the shoe should be relatively broad in the web, with 

 its whole bearing ' right on ' to the sole. Further descent of 

 the sole is then impossible, and exercise judiciously adapted to 

 the animal's capability, will produce a rapid change in its loco- 

 motive powers. 



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